Zimmerman

An action by appellant for the enforcement of an oral contract by Eva Boyd to make a certain testamentary disposition of her property, said Éva Boyd having died intestate. The heirs of the deceased were not made parties to the action, the persons joined as defendants being the public administrator of the county of Riverside, to whom letters of administration of the estate of the intestate had been granted, and others who acquired by purchase from the estate certain real property the legal title to which was vested in the intestate at the time of her death, the proceedings mentioned having been so far as appears from the complaint in all respects regular.

The estate consisted of the real property mentioned on which the deceased resided at the time of her death, and certain household effects and garden implements, the whole valued at the sum of four thousand dollars.

The terms of the contract as alleged in the complaint were as follows: “On or about the 20th of October, 1921, plaintiff agreed with Mrs. Eva Boyd, now deceased, that she would care for her the balance of her natural life provided the said Eva Boyd would give her by will or otherwise all of the property of which she…